The kids are NOT alright!? ‘Climate Kids’ debuts: ‘A five-video portfolio launched to let small fry know – in the kindest possible way – that the climate emergency is upon them’
By Admin
August 28, 2025
By TONY THOMAS
Excerpt: It is quite wrong, apparently, to believe Melbourne University academics patrol the far frontiers of cloud cuckoo land. After all, according to the official reckonings, the institution ranks top among Australian universities and about 40th globally for scholarly excellence.[1]
The university has a team, Melbourne Climate Futures, brimming with excellence and pushing innovative stuff like converting bulk and container ships to sailing vessels. Upholding tradition at what sneering detractors know as the Parkville Asylum, the think tank is a fine successor to the university’s Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI), of which I have often written here at Quadrant Online. Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell (pay package $1.5m), brutishly axed the Sustainable Society four years ago, insisting it was unsustainable.
Today’s “Climate Futures” has spawned Climate Kids. It’s a five-video portfolio launched in February to let small fry know – in the kindest possible way – that the climate emergency is upon them. Unless they do school strikes, reject consumerism, avoid plastic, and nag their parents into electric cars, the planet will see hot-house Armageddon in next to no time.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/08/28/the-kids-are-not-alright-climate-kids-debuts-a-five-video-portfolio-launched-to-let-small-fry-know-in-the-kindest-possible-way-that-the-climate-emergency-is-upon-them/
